884 Transactiom. — Botany. 



axillary, or terminating short branchlets, sessile or shortly pedunculate, \' 

 long : perianth small, becoming enlarged after flowering : stamens 6 : nut 

 convex, black, faintly reticulate. 



Hab. — In several places by the Wairarapa Lake — Harry Borrer Kirk. 

 Juncus paucifloriis, E. Brown (not of T. Kirk). 



Although somewhat local in distribution, this species occurs in several 

 localities in both islands, and is generally known to New Zealand botanists 

 under the name of Juncus communis, /3. hexagonus ; it is, however, distinct 

 from that species, although similar in habit. 



The panicle is lax, consisting of few slender branches, flowers few in 

 number, and small : perianth segments acute, stamens 6, capsule ovoid, 

 faintly angled. 



The culms are usually slender, and the sheaths at the base very short. 

 It appears to have been collected in New Zealand by Banks and Solander. 

 Juncus brevifolius, T. Kirk. 



J. pauciflorus, T. Kirk (not of Brown). 



In the " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," vol. ix., p. 651, I 

 described this small species under the name of Juncus loaucifiorus, but as 

 that name has been applied by Bentham to another species, I propose to 

 call my plant J. brevifolius. It is distinguished from all New Zealand 

 species by its rosulate leaves, slender naked erect culms, and sessile flowers. 

 At present it has only been observed in swamps by the Thomas Kiver, 

 Canterbury, at an altitude of 2,000 feet. 

 Centrolepsis monogyna, Benth. 



Alepyrum monogynum, Hook. f. 



This moss-like plant occurs in swampy places, at an elevation of 3,000 

 feet in Arthur's Pass, where it was observed by the writer in 1877, when 

 specimens were distributed under the MS. name of Alepyrum viride. 



It forms large patches, scarcely ^" in height when in flower. Leaves 

 deep green, subulate, acute, dilated into a broad membraneous base, with a 

 few short hairs at the back. Bracts sub-opposite, narrow. Flowers two, 

 each invested by a semi-transparent scale which nearly equals the bract, and 

 consisting of a single stamen and a single carpel. 

 Car ex leporina, L. 



G. ovalis, Good. 



In November last I collected this common European species in a small 

 valley in the Ohariu district, Wellington. The specimens were of greater 

 luxuriance than any that had previously come under my notice, but differed 

 in no essential particular from the type. The ovate sessile spikelets are 

 collected into a short erect head, so that it can be easily distinguished from 

 any of its New Zealand congeners. 



